Sentences with phrase «subcortical system»

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«It is interesting to consider the evolutionary importance of the connection between the auditory areas, cortical, and the more primitive system of emotional evaluation, subcortical,» says the researcher.

Here we demonstrate that humor modulates activity in several cortical regions, and we present new evidence that humor engages a network of subcortical regions including the nucleus accumbens, a key component of the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system.

Applications in clinical neuroscience have been particularly useful, and have provided insights into systems - level cortical and subcortical anomalies of functional connectivity in neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, Castellanos and Proal, 2012) and schizophrenia (Yu et al., 2012).

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.

Also noteworthy in this context, the prefrontal brain systems that process rewards and support reward - based decision - making undergo a prolonged and vulnerable developmental trajectory, and an impaired capacity of these prefrontal systems to regulate subcortical structures (particularly striatal regions of the basal ganglia) is implicated in risky, impulsive and otherwise disadvantageous decision - making from childhood through later life (for review, Fareri et al.